whenever you look up "engines can't solve this puzzle" this comes up. first of all, lichess engine thinks this is a +5 advantage, not a forced mate.
Actually there was an engine from all the way back in 2006-2008 that could solve this study in mere seconds, here is Rybka version 2.2n2 from December 2006 taking 2 seconds to find the winning first move and show a winning score:
By the way, if you wanted a free Rybka version 2.3.2a that can also solve this puzzle you can still download it from here:
http://www.rybkachess.com/index.php?auswahl=Demo+version
Even though it's a "demo" version it is still fully functional with absolutely no limitations.
whenever you look up "engines can't solve this puzzle" this comes up. first of all, lichess engine thinks this is a +5 advantage, not a forced mate.